2014-09-20

Woke up early around 5am to do a little morning observing on a Saturday. Man, I must be getting old because if someone told me I’d be setting my alarm for 5am on a Saturday instead of sleeping in a few years ago, I’d call them crazy! I’ve recently changed my schedule at work so I’ve been waking up earlier than usual so I’m getting used to it now. And you know what? I actually like it! (Now that I’m getting decent quality sleep.) I was planning on waking up early even if I didn’t make it out to the observatory – Speaking of which –

Jupiter moon telescope sunrise

It’s a really nice morning save the fog. I guess it’s fog.There’s a haze over most of the sky that gets better the more straight-up you look…

– And… my computer just crashed!! –

I was calibrating my guidescope after focusing, taking darks, etc. etc. and just getting ready to image M33 -The Triangulum Galaxy- and it blue-screened on me! I thought I was going to get an image, any image, before the sun came up. Doesn’t look like that’s going to happen. (6:36am)

Time to enjoy my coffee and the sunrise!

I swear I have my own little ‘Sunrise Earth’ here. If it weren’t for the freeway noise, it’d be almost perfect…

Categories

Meta

“You see, I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing, than to have answers that might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure about anything, and many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask, “why are we here?”… But I don’t have to have an answer; I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things.”

-Richard Feynman

Contact

Social Media

Menu

Latest Post

My Brief Morning Walk

Sometimes, the two-minute walk in the parking lot from my car to the entrance of my work is my favorite part of the day. –I know, what a boring life, right? Just hear me out… It all comes down to perspective. You see, I could rush over the blacktop tar pits, weaving between parked cars […]